About Sunanda Sikdar
Born 1951. Sunanda Sikdar is an Indian and Pakistani writer.
Sunanda Sikdar (born 1951) is an Indian writer and memoirist of Bengali origin. She was born after the partition of India in 1947, in the village of Digpait in East Pakistan, (now Bangladesh ) from where her family migrated to Kolkata in India in the 1950s.
Her award-winning memoir
The book received the Ananda Puroshkar and Penguin India has released an English translation under the title A Life Long Ago. In 2010, an extract was also published as a part of Penguin's annual anthology, First Proof: The Penguin Book Of New Writing From India 6.
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Indian writer and memoirist of Bengali origin
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Sunanda Sikdar was born in 1951.
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Sunanda Sikdar is Indian and Pakistani.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Sunanda Sikdar. https://biography.guide/sunanda-sikdar/
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